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Supporters of Leonard Peltier, including members of the American Indian Movement, gather outside the Devils Lake Regional Airport on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, to watch Peltier's plane touch down.
After 49 years in prison, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released on Feb. 18. ... The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians citizen and former American Indian Movement ...
It’s the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: “Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American Indian Movement activist ...
A member of the American Indian Movement provides security for Leonard Peltier on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, during a celebratory event and community feed hosted by NDN Collective at the Sky Dancer ...
Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist, returned to North Dakota, where, under home confinement, he will serve the remainder of his life sentence for the murders of two F.B.I. agents.
But upon arriving at the Jumping Bull Ranch, they entered into a shootout with members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), including Peltier. As many as 30 people were present at the shootout.
Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement, a grassroots activist organization that began in Minneapolis in the 1960s to challenge police brutality and the oppression of Indigenous rights.
Leonard Peltier, the former American Indian Movement leader, center, had his prison sentence commuted by President Joe Biden before he left office.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful to his family and supporters as they welcomed him home to North Dakota, one day after his release from a ...
Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist, and elder of Lakota and Dakota descent, has endured nearly five decades of unjust imprisonment for a crime he has always maintained he ...
Leonard Peltier, Native American activist, released after Biden commutes his life sentence, ending nearly 50 years of imprisonment. ... Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement leader, ...
As one of his last official acts, President Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, 80, allowing the American Indian Movement member to serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement.